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Comment
. 2018 Apr 3;14(4):906-908.
doi: 10.1080/21645515.2017.1417715. Epub 2018 Jan 18.

Letter to the editor regarding "The role of age-sex interaction in the development of post-herpetic neuralgia"

Cintia Muñoz-Quiles  1 , Mónica López-Lacort  1 , Alejandro Orrico-Sánchez  1 , Javier Díez-Domingo  2
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Letter to the editor regarding "The role of age-sex interaction in the development of post-herpetic neuralgia"

Cintia Muñoz-Quiles et al. Hum Vaccin Immunother. .

Abstract

The objective of the study was to evaluate the role of age and sex and their combined effect in the development of post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN) in a large population-based study, in order to confirm the results published previously by Amicizia et al. Data were extracted from population and healthcare databases from the Valencia Region (2009-2014). Logistic regressions were implemented to estimate the effect of increasing age on the probability of developing PHN stratified by sex. From a cohort of 2,289,485 subjects ≥ 50 years, 87,086 cases of HZ were registered and 13,658 (15.7%) of them developed PHN. In our population, PHN cases were more common in women and rose with increasing age independently of the sex.

Keywords: Herpes zoster; age-sex combined effect; healthcare databases; population-based study; post-herpetic neuralgia; risk factor.

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Proportion of PHN cases by sex and age for both PHN definitions.
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